Step 3.3 - Intonation = Transformed

Transform Your English Step III - Incredible Intonation
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So you have been practicing new ways of integrating your English in order to transmit a greater sense of emotion. When you're speaking, you have also been practicing new ways of integrating your questions in English to give an extra spice and flavor to your English style. And we also talked a little bit about how you should start experimenting with new sounds No matter if they work or not. Because this will give you some new ideas and new options in how you can use your voice to flow and integrate in English. Now, let's take it to the next level. So I'll take your text and select one short, simple paragraph, so that you can practice with it.

Let's also select the first word from our list, in this case, happy. The goal here is to read that paragraph, trying to transmit that emotion of happiness, no matter what the words you're reading are, but only with your sense of intonation. Right? So don't be afraid to exaggerate your intonation to really transmit these feelings of happiness. Let's try an example. Right now, this probably will be terrible.

I feel kind of uncomfortable, and I'm sure I will feel ridiculous when I read this. But if I'm asking you to do it, then maybe I should do it too, right. So let me pick my book and select one paragraph. So I did not see her The next day, and my heart ache and my eyes long for her. I smen long for morning, but the day after, when I returned about my usual hour, she was once more on the gallery. So, can you feel a little positive intonation in my voice, even what I'm saying it's not happy at all, but maybe my voice is transmitting that emotion a little bit.

Let's try the same paragraph one more time with our second emotion. Ready. I did not see her the next day and my heart aches and my eyes long for her as men long for morning. But the day after, when I returned after my usual hour, she was once more on the gallery And our looks once more net. Good. I mean, it's not perfect.

But that's not the important thing. The important thing is making it natural for you books press more and more emotions in an automatic and unconscious way your speaking. Good. So now you have four more words to practice your intonation with the same paragraph. I want to show you one technique that I love. As I mentioned before, I love mixing extremes, because that creates a new thing that didn't exist before.

And let's try to do that with intonation as well. You're ready. Okay, so first, think of your two favorite celebrities. They can be famous movie actors, or CEOs from big companies, or any kind of famous person that you admire, and that causes an impact on you to select the celebrities from your same gender. In other words, if you're a male, you should select two male celebrities. If you're a woman, friend, select two female celebrities.

Number two, go to YouTube and start listening to a couple of videos from each of these celebrities. So for example, if you selected Johnny Depp, go online and look for Johnny Depp. Something that you can look for is Johnny Depp. Quote, if you type this, YouTube will show you some results of cool things that Johnny Depp has said in real life or in his movies. Doesn't matter if it's free or from a movie, just stay with the one that you like, and pay attention to how he's speaking. Now, while you're listening, try to copy some of the things that he's pronouncing some of the ways he's flowing and some of the intonations he's using.

When you finish the video, you should start trying to imitate him. Imagine you're Johnny Depp, really put yourself in his shoes and try to feel reality as he's feeling it. Right. If this is difficult, just pretend. Just imagine that you're feeling it. I start speaking.

Now, you should start speaking without stopping for at least a minute. Do these for one or two minutes. start speaking. You're joining them. And don't stop until the minute is finished. Remember how he speaks, remember how he feels and try to convey or transmit that with your voice?

Okay, I'll do the same for the second celebrity. Hopefully these celebrity will speak differently than your first one. So that you have two very different examples to try to copy, imitate, and try to get some inspiration from. So let's say you selected Bill Gates and you watch some videos from Bill Gates. When you finish the video again, count one minute at least, and start speaking without stopping, imagining and feeling as if you are Bill Gates. So once you have practice This speaking like both of the celebrities that you selected, it is time to take it to the next level.

This is what we're gonna do. Remember the things that you like the most about the first celebrity and the things that you enjoyed the most as well from the second celebrity and blend them together into you. So you're going to take another minute, mixing both with your own personality. Right now I know this can sound crazy, and it sounds that it could be difficult. Remember, there are no rules, this is a matter of feeling. So try to recapture the feeling you got with your first celebrity in my case, Johnny Depp, for example.

And with the second one, Brad Pitt, for instance, try to have at the same time these feelings and these Memories of the way they speak. And go ahead and speak for another minute mixing both. A good idea is to record yourself for this minute, so that you can listen to yourself afterwards and see what works and what doesn't. Good. Now, before we finish, I would like to say and mention one final comment about recording your voice. Because this can be one of the most uncomfortable things you can ever do.

Right? I know that when I listen to myself speaking, any language, it kind of, it's not so pleasant. You're getting better. I'm getting used to it, but it's never so exciting to hear myself speak. These might happen to you. So what we should do about it is you should start consistently recording yourself as much as you And listen to yourself speaking English, so that you finally stop worrying about how you sound so that if you sound bad in your opinion, you can say, Okay, I don't care about how I sound, the important things that I'm communicating my message.

So the more you record your voice and the more you listen to yourself, the more comfortable and relaxed you will be with your English voice. And these will be manifested every time you speak, because you won't be so nervous or tense or self conscious about how you're speaking English. All right, then, I really want to congratulate you. If you have gotten so far in this program. This means that you have been practicing and improving several aspects of how you speak English. I'm sure you're noticing some important improvements in your voice over Already, and I'm sure you know that if you keep practicing these things, the benefits will keep accumulating and growing.

With this, I want to close this pillar, the first pillar to transform your English, the pillar of the accent, which included pronunciation, fluency and intonation. I want to encourage you to keep practicing and more than practicing enjoying these aspects of your English. be playful, and experiment in any detail you can. This is a work in progress. I think that you can never obtain a perfect and absolute pronunciation fluency and intonation and that's it. I believe that there are always better and new ways to communicate in the ways that we pronounce intake and flow in I will see you next time.

To start with the second pillar, where we will talk about how to give a personal style to your English communication will build your vocabulary will improve your memory and I will help you structure your English thoughts so that they are always persuasive, influential and motivational. My name is Jay and I'll see you soon

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